COMPANY PROFILE · UPDATED 18 NOV 2025

Genius

Genius is an American digital media company founded on August 27, 2009, by Tom Lehman, Ilan Zechory, and Mahbod Moghadam. Its website serves as an online music encyclopedia allowing users to provide annotations and interpretation to song…

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Founded: 2009
Headcount: 387
Open roles: 2
Last raised: Series B · Sign in to view

TECH STACK

How Genius builds

LEADERSHIP

Founders & key people

OPEN ROLES

Hiring at Genius

FUNDING

Capital raised

Total raised

$77,740,000

Investors

Y Combinator Sv Angel Initialized Capital Andreessen Horowitz

Funding rounds

Series Unknown
$5.8MSep 11, 2020
Series Unknown
$5.8MSep 10, 2020
Series Unknown
$15MMar 7, 2018
Series Unknown
Everblue Management
$15MMar 6, 2018
Series B
$40MJul 11, 2014
Series B
Dan Gilbert, Andreessen Horowitz, Queensbridge Venture Partners
$40MJul 10, 2014
Series A
$15MOct 3, 2012
Series A
Andreessen Horowitz, Alexis Ohanian, AFSquare, Nas, Emagen Entertainment Group
$15MOct 2, 2012
Seed
$1.9MSep 11, 2011
Seed
Transmedia Capital, Betaworks, Y Combinator, Pegasus Tech Ventures, Initialized Capital, SV Angel, Audrey Capital
$1.9MSep 10, 2011

Funding data via Diffbot

Categorized in

Industry

Media & Entertainment Creator Economy & Social

Investors

Y Combinator Sv Angel Initialized Capital Andreessen Horowitz

Industries

Software Companies Media And Information Companies Educational Organizations

Tech Stack

Ruby On Rails Go Ruby Python React C#Next.js Typescript C++Java Microsoft Azure

LOCATIONS

Where they work

Genius Headquarters Location

1400 Fashion Island Blvd suite 500, San Mateo, CA, 94404

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